Our Faculty

John Bolter, PhD, MPDr. Bolter received his PhD in Clinical Neuropsychology from the University of Memphis.
He is Director of the Department of Clinical Neuropsychology at the Neuromedical Center
in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at
Louisiana State University. Dr. Bolter's research interests include neuropsychological
dysfunction in adults and children, neuropsychological assessment procedures, and
the consequences of head trauma. Dr. Bolter has taught in the Alliant International
University Postdoctoral Masters of Science Programs in Louisiana, Texas, California,
and Maryland. Dr. Bolter was the prime mover for psychologists in Louisiana winning
prescriptive authority, and is the first psychologist to write a prescription based
on this legislation.

Thomas Brady, MDDr. Brady is a Board Certified physician in Adult, Child and Adolescent, and Forensic
Psychiatry, and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He
also has special certification in addictionology with the American Society of Addiction
Medicine as well as a Masters in Business Administration. Dr. Brady conducted a 19-year
private practice in psychiatry in San Francisco until 2004 when he became Vice President
and Chief Medical Officer for CRC Health Corp., the largest addiction and related
behavioral health disorder treatment provider in the U.S. For seven years prior to
that, he was a Regional Medical Director with MHN, Inc., the behavioral health/substance
abuse division of Health Net, Inc. Dr. Brady graduated from the University of Alabama
School of Medicine in 1982. He has held numerous medical director positions in inpatient
hospital, residential treatment, and day treatment settings. Dr. Brady is past president
of the Northern California Regional Organization of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,
past Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco,
and currently serves on the Professional Relations and Ethics Committee of the San
Francisco Medical Society. Dr. Brady teaches courses on child and adolescent psychopharmacology
and ethical/legal issues related to psychopharmacology and prescriptive authority.

Susana Galle, PhD, MSCP, CCN, CCH, RYTDr. Galle attended U.C. Berkeley and Yale University. She is a graduate of the CSPP
Postdoctoral Master of Science program in Clinical Psychopharmacology and currently
teaches in the program. A licensed psychologist in Washington, DC, New Mexico, and
California, she also holds an unrestricted prescription license in New Mexico. Being
multicultural and multilingual enriches the psychosocial context of her work. Dr.
Galle’s focus on psychosomatics led her to integrate psychotherapy and pharmacology
with naturopathic approaches to health and disease. This is reflected in her post
graduate teaching at CSPP and major medical schools (Georgetown & George Washington
University Pediatrics), as well as in her publications. Dr. Galle has postgraduate
degrees in clinical nutrition, homeopathy, and advanced certifications as a yoga teacher
and therapist.

Alan J. Lincoln, PhDDr. Lincoln is the Director of the Clinical Psychopharmacology Program at the California
School of Professional Psychology. He earned his PhD in 1980 as well as his MSCP in
Clinical Psychopharmacology in 2004 from the California School of Professional Psychology.
His research interests are in early childhood psychopathology, biological and neuropsychological
basis of autism and neurodevelopmental disorders, neurodevelopmental effects of child
abuse, attention deficit/hyperactivity and severe language disorders, assessment of
children, differential diagnosis and treatment of childhood psychopathology.

Merrill Norton, PharmD, DPh, ICCDP-D Dr. Norton is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Georgia College
of Pharmacy with specialty areas including psychopharmacology and addiction pharmacy.
He has previously been a faculty member of the Fairleigh-Dickinson University Postdoctoral
Training Program in the Masters of Psychopharmacology, University of Georgia School
of Continuing Education, and Berry College in the areas of psychopharmacology and
addiction pharmacy. His area of specialty in addiction pharmacy is the management
of chronic pain in the addicted patient. Dr. Norton is the 2009 recipient of the Georgia
School of Addiction Studies (GSAS) Excellence in Addiction Treatment Individual Achievement
Award “for his unselfish dedication to the treatment of addicted families, not only
in the state of Georgia, but nationally.”

Matthew Philpott, PhDMatthew Philpott is currently a member of the Professional Faculty at Oregon State
University where he serves as the institutional Biological Safety Officer and Responsible
Official, a position he has held since 2006. Prior to joining OSU, he was at Louisiana
State University where he held a variety of positions, including Instructor and Research
Assistant Professor. At Our Lady of the Lake College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Matthew
served as Associate Professor of Biological Sciences for seven years. Dr. Philpott’s
research areas are in the biochemistry and molecular biology of infectious diseases
caused by viruses; he has extensive instructional experience at both undergraduate
and graduate levels. Dr. Philpott has a BS in Microbiology from the University of
Wyoming and a PhD in Oncology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has taught
Clinical Biochemistry in our psychopharmacology program since 1998.

John D. Preston, PsyDDr. Preston is Professor Emeritus at Alliant International University, Sacramento
and formerly on the faculty of UC Davis School of Medicine. Dr. Preston is the author
of twenty-one books addressing psychotherapy, mood disorders, PTSD, neurobiology,
psychopharmacology and spiritual aspects of emotional healing and psychotherapy. His
books have been translated into 14 foreign languages. He has presented talks in the
USA, Canada, Europe, Africa and Russia. Dr. Preston received the Mental Health Association’s
President’s Award for contributions to the mental health community.

Ruth Roa-Navarrete, PsyDDr. Roa-Navarrete received her PsyD in Clinical Psychology from Nova Southeastern
University. She completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Psychopharmacology
at Alliant International University, San Francisco and Eglin Air Force Base, Florida,
and currently works as one of a handful of uniformed prescribing psychologists in
the Department of Defense in her role as department head of Eglin’s Mental Health
Clinic. She has previously functioned as a staff psychologist, chief of mental health
services and director of alcohol and substance abuse services at different clinics
throughout the Air Force. She teaches courses in Gender and Psychopharmacology as
well as Ethnicity and Psychopharmacology.

Morgan T. Sammons, PhD, APB Dr. Sammons is a Retired Navy Captain. In his 20 year naval career, he served as
the Navy’s Clinical Psychology Specialty Leader and Special Assistant to the Navy
Surgeon General for Mental Health and Traumatic Brain Injury. Dr. Sammons received
his PhD from Arizona State University,and is one of the original group of psychologists
trained in a three-year postdoctoral Psychopharmacology Fellowship program offered
by the Department of Defense at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He is a frequent
lecturer in Psychopharmacology, and has over 20 publications on psychological and
psychopharmacological treatments. Dr. Sammons exemplifies the newly developing field
of pharmacotherapeutics, and models an integrative approach of the practicing psychologist
who is trained and licensed to include pharmacotherapy among existing psychotherapeutic
interventions. Dr. Sammons teaches courses in Psychopharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics.

E. Alessandra Strada, PhDDr. Strada is adjunct associate professor of East-West Psychology at the California
Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco; adjunct professor in the post-doctoral
psychopharmacology program at CSPP in San Francisco, and clinical psychologist at
the Mendocino Coast District Hospital and North Coast Family Health Clinic in Northern
California. She holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology, a PhD in East-West Psychology,
and a Postdoctoral Master’s in Psychopharmacology. Formerly an attending psychologist
in the Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care at Israel Medical Center in
New York City and Assistant Professor of Neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine,
Dr. Strada is a Fellow in Thanatology and Treasurer of Division 55 of the American
Psychological Association. Dr. Strada is a regular presenter at national and international
conferences and her clinical and research interests focus on psycho-oncology, pain
management and palliative care, grief and bereavement, integrative psychological treatments,
and staff stress and burnout prevention. Dr. Strada is the author of “Grief in Bereavement
in the Adult Palliative Care Setting” published by Oxford University Press, and “The
Helping Professional’s Guide to End of Life Care”, published by New Harbinger. She
teaches courses on Geriatric Psychopharmacology and Pain Management.

Randall Tackett, PhDDr. Tackett received his PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Georgia in 1979,
and completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Pharmacology
at the Medical University of South Carolina in 1981. He has been on the faculty of
the College of Pharmacy at University of Georgia since 1981, and has served as Professor
and Department Head in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, as well as Professor
in the Department of Clinical and Administrative Services. Dr. Tackett has over 80
publications in refereed journals. His major research focuses on pathophysiological
changes that occur in the development of cardiovascular diseases and the impact of
drug therapy. He teaches courses on Pathophysiology/Clinical Medicine, Pharmacology/Clinical
Pharmacology, and Special Populations.